{"id":713224,"date":"2026-06-03T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:50:08","slug":"womens-giro-ditalia-demi-vollering-wins-stage-five-to-move-second-in-general-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/713224\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Giro d&#8217;Italia: Demi Vollering wins stage five to move second in general classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demi Vollering won stage five of the women&#8217;s Giro d&#8217;Italia as Anna van der Breggen retained the overall leader&#8217;s pink jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dutch rider Vollering pipped her compatriot to the line in a four-way sprint at the end of the first mountain stage of this year&#8217;s race, with Germany&#8217;s Antonia Niedermaier in third on the same time and Canada&#8217;s Isabella Holmgren, two seconds back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elisa Longo Borghini, who has won the two previous editions of the race, was dropped on the final climb of the 146km route into Santo Stefano di Cadore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the Italian made up ground on the descent to lose just 15 seconds on the day, as she crossed the line in fifth, with New Zealand&#8217;s Niamh Fisher-Black on her wheel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a very hard day, with the race splitting much earlier than expected,&#8221; said Vollering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demi Vollering won stage five of the women&#8217;s Giro d&#8217;Italia as Anna van der Breggen retained the overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-713224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}